Re: [Dev-C++] how to update data constantly?

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

One alternative is to let the RS232 thread send messages to the GUI
thread. Either with the serial data, or just as information that there are
serial data available.

/pwm

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Jessica Chen wrote:

> My whole projects have two thread.
> one thread is reading RS-232 communication port.
> another thread is Win32 GUI to display the data got from RS-232
> communication port.
>
> The design I had is:
> Buttons on Win32 GUI.
> So when the button is clicked, the corresponding data is read from RS232
> thread, and display in the GUI thread.
>
> BUT I want to have a constantly updated display.  That is, there is NO
> button to trigger the data update.
> When the data of RS232 thread is updated, my display of GUI thread need to
> be updated.
> What should I design?
>
> My consideration for the design is:
> add a constant interval timer to trigger the data update.
> but how to implement it?
> and do you have any other good idea?
>